Babaeko, whose tenure is winding down, gave the verdict on Friday at a conference held as part of the 51st Annual General Meeting (AGM)/Congress of the association taking place in Abeokuta.
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In a statement issued by the AAAN on Friday, the association’s President, Steve Babaeko, felicitated with Nigerians on the landmark celebration, adding that the special occasion offers an opportunity for all Nigerians to reflect on the collective challenges and successes Nigeria has witnessed as a united entity.
Alhaji Idris made the call while delivering the keynote address at the 50th anniversary conference of the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN) through his representative, the Director, Public Communications and National Orientation in the ministry, Sunny Baba.
The Summit, of over 230 firms, was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States of America.
This was announced at a news conference at the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria secretariat in Lagos.
The fellowship, which will run for two years until 2024, will see him commence research into business cases that will further the development and optimisation of the creative industry in Nigeria and across Africa.
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women internationally, UN Women, is launching the Unstereotype Alliance in partnership with X3M Ideas as a thought and action platform that serves to unite the influence of the advertising, media, and marketing community as a force for transformative change.
The awards were conferred on Globacom at the ceremony, which was held at Landmark Event Centre in Lagos State.
The event which attracted the creme de la creme of Nigeria’s business, politics, show business and the corporate world, took another look at entrepreneurship and the path to economic sustainability.
Slated for June 19, 2021, this year’s event, unlike the previous ones, will hold virtually.
The kitty, which holds on Saturday June 12, at the Ikeja Golf Club, will have friends and colleagues of Babaeko in attendance.
The new Director resumed as the head of the AAAN secretariat on March 8, 2021.
The three-day virtual training programme is with the theme: “The Future of Advertising.”
What informed the introduction of the AdCademy?
The idea of the Adcademy is a dream that’s about two decades in the making. If I am not mistaken, the idea was first mooted when Dr. Biodun Shobanjo was President of the AAAN. Even though I was just a junior creative then, I imagined that at the core of the idea was the imperative to broaden the talent pipeline of the industry and the need to also upskill existing talent pool of member agencies. That vision hasn’t changed even today. Rather, it has taken a much more urgent dimension because of the seismic shift caused by technology. This has totally disrupted many industries including ours. Thus, we have no choice than to launch the academy as part of our mid to long-term survival strategy.
The tournament, which started on February 16, ended on February 26.
The Vice President of the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria, Steve Babaeko; Adekunle Ayeni, Founder, Black House Media; and Temitope Jemerigbe, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, DKK Nigeria, are among the marketing communications big names lined up as facilitators at the inaugural SOL PR Academy, a corporate social responsibility initiative of Public Relations firm, SOL PR.
Chairman, Lagos Advertising and Ideas Festival Management Board, Steve Babaeko, has stated that the 2019 LAIF Awards is centred on the celebration of the Nigerian and African culture, as well as creative storytelling in the advertising industry.
The informal gathering, aptly labeled Drinks with D’banj, was hosted at the BHM Lounge, Victoria Isand, Lagos State